A five-year assessment of the affordable care act: Market forces still trump the common good in U.S. Health Care

International Journal of Health Services

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 209-225

  Geyman, John P ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACA vs. single payer national health insurance; Access to health care; Affordable Care Act; Costs of health care; Quality of health care; U.S. health care

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PUBLIC ACCESS; SERVICE QUALITY;

AMERICAN; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MARKET; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MORALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

COST CONTROL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE, UNITED STATES; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; POLITICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940644095     PISSN: 00207314     EISSN: 15414469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020731414568505     Document Type: Article

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